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“more manly” than a K-boy band leaves a vast band of unmanliness for these lads to occupy.
Sadly, it seems that the testosterone levels in the Hermit Kingdom seem to be evaporating. My wife watches several of the game shows and constantly tells me it’s just fashion… I keep telling her it’s gay…
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Remember, they probably stood in front of the camera alone and this is probably a composite of their best individual poses…now look at the last guy on the right. LOL.
#2 - Actually, it’s just “perfectly straight” men getting back at the Village People for co-opting all the cool male archetypes for the gays. Construction worker? Gay. Motorcycle Man? Gay. Indian Chief? Sailor? Gay… I know! Makeup-wearing businessman!
Needless to say, a perfect example of an oxymoron.
I just dont get how one genre (boy/girl band) can dominate the music scene year in and year out.
When I was growing up, I think most people I knew had eclectic taste. Is it just me or did I miss something growing up? Then again, I do remember girls buying Tiger Beat to get New Kids on the Block posters but…
Makeup-wearing Korean bands look like girly-men next to makeup-wearing American metal bands.
http://www.80srewind.net/80s/i.....ighair.JPG
Marmot - now is a perfect time to remind you to update your link to The Party Pooper, who has moved to an address you can find from his old one.
Talk about major Emo. How can they see where they’re going?
There were some bad 80’s glam bands that’s for sure. I’m so thankful Nirvana killed them off.
Never fear though because Koreans are still carrying on the tradition looooong after it died out in the West.
I sure hope the North Korean military doesn’t think that these are the type of guys they’d be up against if they decided to come over the border one day.
#10,
You may be on to something.
I always wondered why the North Korean government invited some South Korean boybands to perform in Pyeongyang.
#6,
Funny, but when I think of makeup wearing American bands I think of this…
http://melbourne.diarystar.com.....anson1.jpg
http://www.kisspodcast.com/ima.....outfit.jpg
and, of course, http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage.....15;316.jpg
Hahaha someguy, I love the second link you posted there, hilarious! I would love to see our goatblood-tainted ax guitar player meet the five member Elle magazine K-band for some kicks.
Since I am over my laughing fit, I can say what I want.
To be frank, I think the photo is doctored. No way you are going to get them into decent looking European cut suits. We all know they prefer that shiny sliver polyester numbers with the clear black stitching on the lapel and cuffs. Add to that the jacket should be cut so its a size too small in waist and the pant legs should be cut an inch or two above the ankle to show off their stylish black Nike athletic socks.
That brings us to the finishing touches, and how we know their heads have been photoshopped. Note they are lacking the pale pink, lime green, and puce tie with sliver metallic stitching. Also note the cuffs do not have a label proclaiming in big script letters “100% Italian Handmade Silk”.
#10, having taught members of the military at one point in Korea, I can safely say that the malnourished warriors of Bukhan would be up against a bunch of pampered pooves. Handbags at 20 paces, girls!
#14, put your shirt on - this isn’t a boy band blog.
#14,
Pampered is a word that would describe a lot of my students, both male and female…but that’s how I would describe a lot of the city dwellers back home, too.
I grew up in the country, upper-middle class household with two highly educated parents. We had to help our father chop 12 chords of lumber every spring, enough to last us through the winter. I knew which trees to pick and how to make them fall where I wanted to with accuracy when I was 6.
#11: “Funny, but when I think of makeup wearing American bands I think of this…”
Marilyn Manson, KISS, and Alice Cooper are meant to shock and scare. Poison (who I linked) and glam metal bands were supposed to be attractive in their eye shadow and lipstick. [shakes head]
#17,
Gene Simmons would disagree with you.
‘Since I am over my laughing fit, I can say what I want.’
i can understand your need to disparage korean guys. afterall, you did write a post on your blog in which you declared your wife became a non korean as soon she married you. you also said she married up and implied she married a real man. now if you’ll excuse me, i have some laughing to do. lol.
‘10, having taught members of the military at one point in Korea, I can safely say that the malnourished warriors of Bukhan would be up against a bunch of pampered pooves. Handbags at 20 paces, girls!’ poster 14
this is a topic poster 14 seems to love to talk about. i’d bet my bottom dollar the guy just got the crap beaten out of him by some skinny korean kid. that’s why he keeps bringing it up. something happened to him.
lastly, sage pawi gives sage quote:
any man who uses the internet to declare he’s a real man, ain’t no real man. real man never need to say he real man. never need to imply.
“any man who uses the internet to declare he’s a real man, ain’t no real man. real man never need to say he real man. never need to imply.”
Cool! That means I’m a real ma…
Hey, wait a minute! It’s a trap!
Pawi,
When the kids at the school in question were given leave from their weekly 10k run because of slight drizzle, I rightly laughed with derision. You draw the conclusions, but I call them soft. QED.
There are no Koreans where I currently live, save for the GF of a visiting Canuk friend. I couldn’t find one, skinny, fat, black, white or brindle to kick my ass right now if I tried. But it’s interesting that you project an image like that and I’d have to hazard a guess that you got pounded enough times that this revenge fantasy springs straight to mind when you perceive your masculinity to be threatened. You’re a walking exemplar of Dan Clowes’ Dan Pussey if ever there was one.
This had me laughing. Yes, there are Internet warriors, but I, as well as a number of people who post, have met aaronm in the flesh. Let me just say, not only is it _extremely_ unlikely he ever got the crap beeaten out of him by some skinny korean kid, I would say it’s equally unlikely the man ever got the crap beaten out of him by anyone, skinny, Korean, or otherwise.
Typically, Asian girls like guys who look/act/talk effeminately.
Male sex symbols in most East Asian cultures, whether they are Asian or not, can all be described as effeminate. Notice David Beckham, whose voice sounds like he might fit right in with the Vienna Boy’s Choir (allegedly they chop it off to reach those high notes) and that dude from “Prison Break,” who I think I heard likes to putt from the rough.
No different in Korea. Look at all those guys dressing like and trying to look like the latest boy bands who are the shit right now and all the girls in Korea want to engage in sexual activities with them. I know for a fact that any guy who has been exposed to and finds more appealing Western values of coolness will look at them and think “I bet they have at least 40 different types of dildos in their closets, and at least one up their rectums right now.”
What can you say? Girls dig that, so guys try to emulate it, resulting in an hopeless endless cycle.
Which raises a catch-22. Do I have to dress/act/talk like that to get girls here?
The only way Super Junior could become more manly is if they upped their membership from 13 to 26.
projection? lol. you’re the one who seems to love talking about this, not me. i just made comment on yours but thanks for your answer.
you can’t know people on the net, dog, but i’m surprised you’d hang out with such.
“Gene Simmons would disagree with you.”
Back in their heyday, Gene Simmons and KISS grossed tens of millions. Most of them parents.
I don’t know what to say except that I consider aaronm to be a good friend and human being and I do know him IRL.
Cheers Dogbert, you are a true gent, as always.